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Package Design
Four Trends Shaping Beer and Wine Design in 2025
Learn how etches and imprints, intricate artwork and photography, playful mascots, and other techniques can be used on your beer or wine packaging to make a lasting impression on-shelf.
January 29, 2025
From left: By exsenz on 99designs by Vista; by Sasha999 on 99designs by Vista; and label by nestorson on 99designs by Vista. Photos courtesy of 99designs by Vista.
Recycling
Community Poll: Utilizing Advanced Recycling
See where your peers stand on the importance of advanced recycling.
January 29, 2025
Contract Packaging
Carmine’s Adopts Accessible Packaging Lid for Pasta Sauces
New York City-based Italian restaurant chain Carmine’s is adopting a lid that makes opening pasta sauce jars easier for a wider range of consumers.
January 29, 2025
Carmine's Sauce Jars With EEASY Lids
Package Design
Italian Wineries Go Digital to Meet EU Ingredient Regulation
Italian wine producers in the Lunelli Group are using Markem-Imaje QR technology to digitally update ingredient and nutritional information for each batch of wine.
January 28, 2025
Bisol1542 and Jeio now include QR codes on their product labels for updated ingredient and nutritional information.
Bio-based
Compostable Seafood Shipper Insulation Supports Brand’s Mission
D2C business Wild Alaskan Company ships its sustainably harvested, wild seafood using bio-based foam insulation that is home and industrially compostable as well as water soluble.
January 27, 2025
Green Cell Foam cornstarch-based insulation panels keep Wild Alaskan’s shipments of sustainably harvested, wild seafood frozen for up to 72 hrs. Image courtesy of Wild Alaskan.
Digital Transformation
8 Solutions to Scale Digital Connectivity and Data Capture
Packaging and processing professionals provide insight on scaling digital technologies across operations.
January 24, 2025
Data Connectivity, Capture Header Edit
Cartoning
Palm-Sized Carton Delivers 180 Doses of Skin Care
Nwär Skin’s new Seid skin care products are encapsulated in tiny, dissolvable strips packaged in a paperboard carton. While the product reduces overconsumption, the package ensures recycling.
January 24, 2025
Seid Altered Perceptions Facial Cleanser and Seid Conscious Commitments Facial Balm products come in a dainty, palm-sized paperboard carton that’s perforated along the front and bottom panel to allow for easy access to the product strips. Image courtesy of Nwar Skin.
Recycling
Dunlop, BerryWorld, and Untouched World Utilize Recycled Materials
ThePackHub
See a few examples of recycling innovations from Dunlop, BerryWorld, and Untouched World from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
January 23, 2025
The new packaging will be used for official Dunlop balls at tournaments including the Australian Open and Nitto ATP Finals.
Recycling
Community Poll: Achieving Circularity
See where your peers stand on the challenge of adopting circularity practices.
January 22, 2025
Recycling
U.S. PET Bottle Recycling Rate Reaches 30-Year High
According to NAPCOR’s ‘2023 PET Recycling Report,’ the U.S. PET bottle recycling rate increased 4% from 2022 and is the highest rate since 1996.
January 22, 2025
Photo Courtesy of Getty Images
Recycling
Coca-Cola Hits 100% Recycled PET Mark
This marks the first national adoption of 100% recycled PET bottles for a sparkling brand across the U.S.
January 22, 2025
Coke 2 Several
Recycling
LEGO, Sainsbury, and Bel Introduce Paper Packaging Innovations
ThePackHub
See a few examples of paper packaging innovations from LEGO, Sainsbury, and Bel from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
January 22, 2025
This development is part of LEGO’s broader strategy to use renewable or recycled materials and reduce carbon emissions by 37% by 2032.
Recycling
Plastics Liability Paradigm Shift
California sues Exxon Mobil, alleging it misled the public about the recyclability of plastics and contributed to the plastic pollution crisis, echoing past tobacco litigation.
January 22, 2025
Eric F. Greenberg
Package Design
Tropicana Weathers Blowback from ‘Shrinkquivelence,’ Pack Redesign
Infamous in pack design circles for a similar occurrence in 2008, Tropicana once again redesigned packaging in such a way that cost the company 19% in sales. We spoke to expert Brent Lindberg of Fuseneo, designer of legacy pack that's being replaced.
January 21, 2025
Tropciana's new bottle
Package Design
Seafood Branding is ‘a Love Letter from Alaska’
Wild Alaskan Company’s executive creative director, Cliff Borress, shares the strategy behind the D2C seafood business’s new Alaska-inspired packaging graphics.
January 20, 2025
Each fish pack features a beautiful illustration of the fish species contained within as a way to educate consumers on the differences between them. Photo courtesy of Wild Alaskan Company.
Digital Transformation
Packagers and Processors Weigh in on Effective Data Utilization
Packaging and processing professionals note several important factors to consider when using data to enhance the production process.
January 17, 2025
Expert panelists and industry experts describe a needed 'buy-in' for effective data utilization.
Package Design
Community Poll: Looking Ahead at EPR in 2025
Share your thoughts on the impacts of EPR legislation in the coming year.
January 16, 2025
Recycling
AMERIPEN's Packaging Policy Update & 2025 Outlook
In this annual Q&A, AMERIPEN Policy and Membership Director Rob Keith and the association’s principle lobbyist, Andy Hackman of Serlin Haley, provide updates on current state and federal packaging policy along with insights on what to expect in the coming
January 16, 2025
Ameripen Beauty Web
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